At 11:43 PM -0700 8/2/05, sudo Yang wrote: >What would be the easiest way to upgrade 2000 servers from RedHat 9 to >Fedora or RedHat Enterprise/CentOS? Also, 1/2 of these systems have 1 >TB data partition that cannot be destroyed. > >Would an upgrade option work via Kickstart? Holy Cr*p! Why would you take the risk? Leave it alone! You can upgrade to RHEL over the next few years one machine at a time as each machine is replaced. You certainly should make a backup first. If you can't manage that, you should not proceed. Note that a backup is any "safe" /copy/ of the data; if you plan on destroying the original, the one copy becomes the "original" and you need another copy for a backup. I don't know if you have 1000 TB of data, or 1000 systems that share copies of the same 1 TB of data. The second case is much easier to handle. The first case requires doing each machine separately, taking care that no data is lost from any machine. Hopefully you have some form of redundancy in the system already. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
